Congressional Hearings

Congressional Hearings on U.S. Food Assistance Programs


Rising Food Prices: Budget Challenges, Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, Josette Sheeran, July 30, 2008

To Review Efforts to Deliver International Food aid and provide foreign agricultural development assistance, House Agricultural Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development and Foreign Agriculture, July 16 2008

Michael Yost, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
James Kunder, U.S. Agency for International Development
Sean Callahan, Catholic Relief Services
Dr. Andrew Barnes, Food for the Hungry
Avram Guroff, Food Security and Specialty Crops Portfolio, ACDI/ VOCA
Dr. Nicholas Minot, International Food Policy Research Institute
Dr. Theo Dillaha, Office of International Research, Education and Development, Virginia Tech University 

U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Responding to the Global Food Crisis, May 14, 2008

U.S. Response to the Global Food Crisis: New Approaches, Henrietta Fore 
Opening Statement for Hearing on Global Food Crisis, Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.)
Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, The Global Food Crisis: Causes and Solutions, Peter McPherson
Testimony, Edward Lazear, Chairman Council of Economic Advisors

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, May 14, 2008

Statement Before the U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Financial Services: Hearing on Contributing Factors and International Responses to the Global Food Crisis, Arvind Subramanian
Contributing Factors and International Responses to the Global Food Crisis, House Committee on Financial Services, Eva Clayton
Contributing Factors and International Responses to the Global Food Crisis, Andrew Natsios
Institute for Food and Development Policy, Raj Patel [PDF]
Do We Have a Food Crisis: Are the Recent Price Increases a Harbinger of the Future?, Dr. Robert Watson